The president of Football Kenya Federation has announced that Kenyan Premier League side Gor Mahia will be the champions of 2019/2020 season.
Mwendwa made the announcement through his twitter handle on Thursday, April 30 where he congratulated K’Ogalo and added they would represent the country in the CAF Champions League next season.FKF
“Ooh and Congratulations Gor Mahia! You are champions once again and you will represent Kenya on the champions league next season. Let’s do this!” read Nick’s tweet.
Mr. Mwendwa went on to point out that what formed hisdecision was derived from in the law – Section 2.6 of the FKF constitution which governs failure to complete the league.
Sections 2.6.1.1 through to 2.6.1.3 states as that where the league format due to circumstances of force majeure fails to be completed within the season, the league winner shall be determined as follows.
- Before each and every club has completed its first round fixture the league shall be declared null and void
- Where all the clubs in the league have completed the first round fixture but less than 75% league games have been played, the table standings at the end of the first round shall be considered as the final table standing of the league.
- Where at least one club has played more than 75% of the league games, the following formula shall be used to determine the table position for the respective group: Total number of points earned from the number of games played multiplied by the total number of games supposed to be played decided by the number of games played.
In a quick reaction, KPL have released a strong statement disputing FKFs decision to cancell the league pointing the lack of consistency in the Federation’s stand on the fate the two competitions implies; a selective application of the rules by FKF, the selective interpretation by FKF of CAF’s letter to the Federation, disregard by FKF of the hard work put in by KPL teams to reach where they are in the current KPL 2019/20 logs, amounts to breach of the KPL mandate on running of the league through interfering with the management of its affairs.
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KPL went ahead to express its strong opposition to the league being cancelled at this stage without first exploring other avenues which may see the season played to the end.
“The lack of consistency in the Federation’s stand on the fate the two competitions implies; a selective application of the rules by FKF, the selective interpretation by FKF of CAF’s letter to the Federation, disregard by FKF of the hard work put in by KPL teams to reach where they are in the current KPL 2019/20 standings, amounts to breach of the KPL mandate on running of the league through interfering with the management of its affairs,” read part of the KPL statement.
FKF responded by supporting their decision to suspend all sporting activities following the Covid-19 outbreak that has disrupted businesses and all sporting activities around the world.
In a statement to the press FKF said: “Following the confirmation of the first Corona Virus (Covid-19) in Kenya, Football Kenya Federation has suspended FKF grassroots football competitions and women leagues including the Kenya Women Premier League, Women Division One League”.
